1st Graders Battle it Out at GMS
The library is holding its annual library card sign-up contest between the first grade classes at Griffin Memorial School. Library card applications will be sent home with each child, and at the end of the month, the class with the most library card holders, both old and new, will win a special story time with Children’s Librarian Carrie-Anne Pace, a slice of pizza at Papa Gino's, and a coupon to the school store.
For information on how you can get a library card, call us at 424-4044, or send an email.
edited 10-4-08
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Fall Story Time Begins Sept. 30th
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An Apple a Day Make 'n Take
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All Booked Up Reads Last Days of Summer for October
Steve Kluger's Last Days of Summer will be discussed at the October 1st meeting of All Booked Up.
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If It's September, It Must Be Library Card Sign Up Month!
It is indeed September, and it is Library Card Sign-up Month. Make sure the children you hold near and dear are among the two-thirds of Americans that carry the smartest card of all – a library card!
Why? Because studies show that children who read or are read to in the home, and who use the library, perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning. Are you surprised? With a library card, children can get homework help, check out books, borrow DVDs, pick up crafts to go, and attend special programs - all of which make after school life a little more fun.
Add a library card to your child's school supply list, and urge your family and friends to do the same. It's probably the only school supply you'll get for free!
For more information on getting a library card, stop in for a visit, call us at 424-4044, or simply send us an email.
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Book of the Month Club Features The Hummingbird's Daughter in September
September's featured novel is The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea. Copies are available at the Circulation Desk upstairs.
"Her powers were growing now, like her body. No one knew where the strange things came from. Some said they sprang up in her after the desert sojourn with Huila. Some said they came from somewhere else, some deep inner landscape no one could touch. That they had been there all along." Teresita, the real-life "Saint of Cabora," was born in 1873 to a 14-year-old Indian girl impregnated by a prosperous rancher near the Mexico-Arizona border. Raised in dire poverty by an abusive aunt, the little girl still learned music and horsemanship and even to read: she was a "chosen child," showing such remarkable healing powers that the ranch's medicine woman took her as an apprentice, and the rancher, Don Tom s Urrea, took her-barefoot and dirty-into his own household. At 16, Teresita was raped, lapsed into a coma and apparently died. At her wake, though, she sat up in her coffin and declared that it was not for her. Pilgrims came to her by the thousands, even as the Catholic Church denounced her as a heretic; she was also accused of fomenting an Indian uprising against Mexico and, at 19, sentenced to be shot. From this already tumultuous tale of his great-aunt Teresa, American Book Award-winner Urrea (The Devil's Highway) fashions an astonishing novel set against the guerrilla violence of post-Civil War southwestern border disputes and incipient revolution. His brilliant prose is saturated with the cadences and insights of Latin-American magical realism and tempered by his exacting reporter's eye and extensive historical investigation. The book is wildly romantic, sweeping in its effect, employing the techniques of Catholic hagiography, Western fairy tale, Indian legend and everyday family folklore against the gritty historical realities of war, poverty, prejudice, lawlessness, torture and genocide. Urrea effortlessly links Teresita's supernatural calling to the turmoil of the times, concealing substantial intellectual content behind effervescent storytelling and considerable humor." (From Publishers Weekly Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. (May 17) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.)
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